[gdal-dev] Convert from CA83-VF (EPSG 2229) to WGS84 (EPSG 4326) using gdaltransform

[Jean-Claude Repetto]

On 05/31/11 21:23, kavinmehta wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to convert a shape file from EPSG 2229 to EPSG 4326 but am not
> too sure how to do this using gdaltransform and running it from the command
> line?
>
>
> gdaltransform -s_srs "c:\xyz\oldfile.shp" -t_srs "c:\xyz\newfile.shp"
>
> but it did not work.

Hi,

The appropriate utility to reproject shapefiles is ogr2ogr : 
http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html

Jean-Claude